tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993165553021868648.post3467722627295498261..comments2024-03-27T05:39:24.505-04:00Comments on Nerdly Pleasures: Tutorial - DOSBox and Floppy Disk Game InstallationGreat Hierophanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409413307024477304noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993165553021868648.post-7706890480974197562022-07-06T11:13:13.708-04:002022-07-06T11:13:13.708-04:00See response to the other post.See response to the other post.Great Hierophanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04409413307024477304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993165553021868648.post-59761271219039114902022-07-06T11:12:56.768-04:002022-07-06T11:12:56.768-04:00This comment is untrue, DOSBox SVN certainly suppo...This comment is untrue, DOSBox SVN certainly supports installing DOS games off multiple floppy disks and this feature has not been deleted. I have used it several times in the past to make clean installs. While it may not be perfect, the source has had some recent improvements which should improve compatibility and reduce the instances where you need to boot true MS-DOS and a hard disk image to install a game.Great Hierophanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04409413307024477304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993165553021868648.post-67558596238023471252022-07-05T01:57:02.275-04:002022-07-05T01:57:02.275-04:00THIS GUIDE IS OUTDATED
It is no longer possible t...THIS GUIDE IS OUTDATED<br /><br />It is no longer possible to specify multiple floppy disk images in DOSBOX, they removed the feature instead of fixing bugs.<br /><br />This means there is no NO WAY to install games that require multiple floppy disks except to purchase a floppy disk drive with the correct connections for a modern PC and then buy some floppy disks from somewhere and then write the images onto actual floppy disks and swap them like its 1982.<br /><br />Until the lazy and ignorant developers of the emulator realize their mistake, DOSBOX is essentially useless because you can't install anything. Every other emulator of old hardware has a mechanism to handle this problem, but DOSBOX removed theirs and don't seem to be replacing it. <br /><br />To make matters worse, if you have installed the Linux or Android subsystems, you're running Hyper-V which means even emulators like VirtualBox or VMware won't work until you delete your Linux and Android installations.<br /><br />Hopefully someone has a copy of DOSBOX that still works or perhaps one of the forks works properly or the future of DOS emulation is looking pretty bleak. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993165553021868648.post-79932348477330844822022-07-05T01:01:34.117-04:002022-07-05T01:01:34.117-04:00Wow, so basically it's extremely hard (impossi...Wow, so basically it's extremely hard (impossible for mortals) to install software in DOSBOX. Isn't this a problem with installing basically everything on DOS? This emulator shouldn't have been released in this state. In fact, I can't find any DOS emulators that can deal with multiple floppy disk installs, despite that being the form that most DOS applications are delivered in.<br /><br />I've just spend hours scouring the net for information on how to install software. It seems like the easiest method would be to buy a USB floppy drive and write the disk images onto floppy disks and complete the installation like its 1984 because the emulator authors couldn't be bothered making a way to switch floppy disk images?<br /><br />Is there another DOS emulator that be used to install software? So far I've tried DOSEMU on Linux, DOSEMU2 on Linux, DosBox on Windows, DosBox on Linux, and vDos on Windows. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993165553021868648.post-47740743987558078992014-01-15T01:54:39.631-05:002014-01-15T01:54:39.631-05:00I tried and tried, but I cannot get VFD to work in...I tried and tried, but I cannot get VFD to work in Windows 8.1, so I guess I will have to use ImDisk in the future.Great Hierophanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04409413307024477304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993165553021868648.post-83471790380109440302014-01-01T19:57:48.624-05:002014-01-01T19:57:48.624-05:00ImDisk is certainly eaiser to get working with Win...ImDisk is certainly eaiser to get working with Windows Vista/7/8, but I find Virtual Floppy Drive, when it is assigned to files with the .ima extension, to be much, much faster and opening disk images. This makes multiple-disk floppy installs go by much more quickly. <br /><br />DOSBox only supports unprotected floppy disks, so Kyroflux's only possible use for DOSBox is to try to recover a damaged disk. That assumes that you can make a standard disk dump from the data Kyroflux generates. As I recall, Kyroflux saves the data as a raw stream of flux reversal data which must be sent to the Software Preservation Society, which may send you back an IPF file which you can write to disk, then image it with a standard program.Great Hierophanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04409413307024477304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993165553021868648.post-65175652468536744592013-12-31T15:42:42.580-05:002013-12-31T15:42:42.580-05:00Another tool for mounting images on Windows is the...Another tool for mounting images on Windows is the excellent ImDisk utility (http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#ImDisk) which comes with signed 32- and 64-bit drivers, and can mount not only floppy images, but images of hard drives, optical media, etc., in a wide variety of formats.<br /><br />For creating archival-quality images, the KryoFlux board (http://www.kryoflux.com/) actually records the low-level magnetic flux data from the floppy, preserving everything, including copy protection. It can export into a wide variety of image formats, so it's suitable for imaging not just DOS game disks, but floppies from almost all classic platforms, and some emulators can now use KryoFlux's native format, which will allow everything including the copy-protection to be preserved in the disk image.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993165553021868648.post-82886199226378177322013-12-19T17:48:57.606-05:002013-12-19T17:48:57.606-05:00This has more information on it than the DOSBox wi...This has more information on it than the DOSBox wiki itself does. Someone should link to this.Trixterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14920796808766570708noreply@blogger.com